Understanding demographic events and migration patterns in two urban slums of Nairobi City in Kenya.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the dynamics of movements between different demographic events is essential for informing effective population management strategies. This study aims to characterize the trajectories of demographic and other vital events within the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS). Thus, it intends to unravel patterns and trends that can guide the development of targeted policies and interventions to address the population's evolving needs. Using a continuous-time homogeneous multi-state Markov model, longitudinal data from 223,350 individuals in Korogocho and Viwandani urban slums, we study the enumeration, births, deaths, and migrations among urban poor in Nairobi, shedding light on population dynamics and movements over time, disaggregated by gender. Findin

SUBMITTER: Omondi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11582661 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature